"We discuss “wisdom” with those that are mature; only it is not the wisdom of the world or of the dethroned Powers who…"

"if the Church were puffed up with the confidence that it could quite comfortably attain what the Apostles, as wholly …"

"Let us, therefore, turn the word upon ourselves, and let everyone individually take to himself what he hears, not ask…"

"Let us not make the marvelous too natural; for then perhaps that which we are speaking of is no longer the marvelous,…"

"Have you seen the marvel, my hearer, and by what means? Was it with the help of that beautiful power in the soul whic…"

"At the Communion table you are able to do nothing at all, not even this, that you hold fast the thought of your unwor…"

"The book had no reviews from contemporaries. A second edition was published in 1862. Emanuel Hirsch translated the bo…"

"Out there the stars proclaim your majesty, and the perfection of everything proclaims your greatness, but in here it …"

"the blessing is the good in itself; it is the one thing needful, is infinitely more glorious and blessed than all suc…"

"Outside everything is in movement, nationalism surges high in all, everyone talks of sacrificing life and blood, is p…"